A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . vocal delivery far more pleasing and effec-tive. Hence its cultivation is of primary importanceto those who are ambitious of accomplishment in Elo-cution. CHAPTER I. POSTURES OF THE BODY. The postures of the body, with respect to vocaldelivery, may be divided into favourable and unfavour-able ; and, the better to suit my purpose in giving theirillustration, I shall first treat of the unfavourable. The most unfavourable posture is the horizontal. Ifa reader or a speaker shou
A system of elocution, with special reference to gesture, to the treatment of stammering, and defective articulation .. . vocal delivery far more pleasing and effec-tive. Hence its cultivation is of primary importanceto those who are ambitious of accomplishment in Elo-cution. CHAPTER I. POSTURES OF THE BODY. The postures of the body, with respect to vocaldelivery, may be divided into favourable and unfavour-able ; and, the better to suit my purpose in giving theirillustration, I shall first treat of the unfavourable. The most unfavourable posture is the horizontal. Ifa reader or a speaker should lie prone, or supine, hewould not be likely to deliver a discourse with energyand effect. I have never known an orator to delivera discourse in the horizontal posture; but I have knownindividuals to speak in public in postures almost as in-appropriate. As impressions communicated through the mediumof the eye, are the most lasting, two series of figures are (69) 70 ELOCUTION here introduced, the former of which are unfavourable,and the latter favourable, to vocal delivery. POSTURES UNFAVOURABLE TO VOCAL GESTURE, 71 POSTURES FAVOURABLE TO VOCAL DELIVERY.
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